Urban Issues and Habitation

News : Urban Issues and Habitation

The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), has sent a save-our-soul to the federal government over the deplorable condition of the East-West road, warning that if urgent steps are not taken in the areas of road and bridges rehabilitation, the Kaima bridge in Kolokuma/Opokuma area of Bayelsa and Mbiama bridge in Ahoada area of Rivers State may collapse. (AllAfrica)

Rwanda Information Technology Authority (RITA) announced nominees for the first Intego Information Communication Technology (ICT) awards at a press conference held yesterday at Telecom house. (AllAfrica)

Over 700 secondary school directors (headmasters) will undergo training in Information Communication Technology (ICT), courtesy of the Ministry of Education. (AllAfrica)

Nigeria has overtaken South Africa to become the Middle East and African region's largest market in the first quarter. (AllAfrica)

The twin problem of pipeline breaks and epileptic power supply are taking their toll on the nation's refining capacity, as activities at all the nation's refineries have been completely crippled. (AllAfrica)

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INNOVATIVE schemes are needed to help low-income earners buy their own house, while banks should continue providing finance only to those who can afford it, say experts who were in SA last week to attend an international forum. (AllAfrica)

SA's largest cellular operator, Vodacom, will soon be under British ownership, with the government agreeing that Telkom should divest from the business. (AllAfrica)

In a bid to fast track development in Bayelsa, the state government has released the sum of N10 billion to contractors handling various contracts for the state government. (AllAfrica)

Sports and youth development may soon have a boost in Jigawa, as the State government said yesterday that it would earmark N7 billion for the construction of an Olympic size stadium in Dutse. (AllAfrica)

EFFORTS by the Competition Commission to fine Telkom R3,7bn for anti-competitive behaviour have been revived, with the commission winning the right to appeal against a court ruling that temporarily halted its campaign. (AllAfrica)

THE 200 MW dam planned for Karuma has failed to take off because of unending negotiations between the Government and Norwegian project promoter, Norpak. (AllAfrica)

WHILE the global financial markets are in a frenzied state, SA's telecommunication industry is plodding along in the same torpid state as usual. How depressing. (AllAfrica)

In a year when compliance with international accounting standards carried the top score, Standard Chartered Bank has come out tops to win this year's overall FiRe Award. (AllAfrica)

The push for an indigenous shipping service within the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) is on its way to fruition. (AllAfrica)

The credibility of the marketing function is at stake and only marketers can redeem their image and restore public faith in the profession, a respected marketer has said. (AllAfrica)

It is said that the amount of electricity you consume shows your standard of living. (AllAfrica)

My Haven by Matuba Mahlatjie: (AllAfrica)

Representatives of civil society, the media, faith-based organisations, public officers and parliamentarians from Cameroon, Central and Francophone West African countries have noted with regret that the hoarding of information by government officials negatively affects the socio-economic and political growth of a nation. (AllAfrica)

SWAKOPMUND'S beleaguered feral cat population now has its "meow" on the World Wide Web, with the recent launch of the Cat Protection Society's website 'The Feral Cats of Swakopmund'. (AllAfrica)

Stakeholders in Information Communication Technology (ICT), sector have condemned the low number of fibre optic link within the African region, which according to them has reduced considerably broadband access in the region. (AllAfrica)

Jean Francois Desmare, a Belgian national, has invested (Frw55 million) in an insurance business and a call centre in Rwanda. (AllAfrica)

Despite new measures put in place by the internet service providers to fight the scourge of spam, thirty years on, the menace has grown into an underground industry that sends out billions of messages by the day, making up more than 80% of e-mail traffic (AllAfrica)

Worried by the condition of federal roads in the state which it described as being in "total mess", Abia State Government said it has awarded contract worth N5.3 billion to reconstruct two major federal roads in Aba, the commercial capital. (AllAfrica)

DESPITE an airline industry slow-down, low-cost carrier kulula.com will double their flights from Lanseria International Airport to Cape Town and Durban. (AllAfrica)

Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Osita Chidoka, has decried the policy of importation of second hand vehicles popularly called 'tokunbo" into Nigeria, which has contributed immensely to the rate of accidents in Nigeria . (AllAfrica)

Residents of Federal Housing Autority (FHA) Lugbe have faulted the contractors of the estate, for creating only one route into and out of the estate describing the architects as not envisaging the volume of traffic that would pass there. (AllAfrica)

Alhaji Haruna Dan-Katsina, the Chairman, Kebbi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), said yesterday that the state needed N5 billion to build more classrooms. (AllAfrica)

Residents of Nyanya and Mararaba have called on the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police commissioner, Mr. John Haruna, to bring succour to them by removing the roadblock at Mopol junction check point. (AllAfrica)

Mrs. Grace Ekpwihre, Minister of State for Technology, recently pronounced one of the enduring truths we have evaded telling ourselves when she announced that doctorate degree holders have failed Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

Tanzania postal services can be improved more if modern means of communication are applied, Postmaster General Deos Mndeme has said. (AllAfrica)